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The Englishwoman's face was turned to Colcord; her color was heightened only slightly, but in her blue eyes was the light of serene stars, and about her lips those new lines of self-sacrifice, anxiety, sorrow, which Evelyn had resented as marring the woman's delicate beauty, now imparted to her face vast strength, ineffable dignity, nobility.
Colcord," continued he, raising his voice, "how long was the interval between the discharge of the gun and your arrival on the spot." "Five minutes, or less," said the old man, "for I was not far off, and made what haste I could, it being borne in on my spirit that mischief was abroad." "Did you hear two reports?" asked the Warden. "Only one," replied Colcord.
"I'm afraid, Simec," said Colcord crisply, "that we're getting a bit unpopular. We'd better drop the subject. It was rather a cheap play, I'll admit, stacking myself up as a martyr in a wholly impossible situation. You called me and Bates there rather cleverly.... The drinks are on us.... At the same time I meant what I said, even if it was far-fetched; I mean I was sincere."
Alcott, whose name is changed to Colcord, is not treated realistically, but rather idealized in such kindly sympathetic manner as might prevent all possibility of offence at the artistic theft of his personality.
Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success. It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background in some instances the plot itself for each one of its eleven tales.
"Those papers and parchments have a fine old yellow tint, Colcord," said the Warden, "very satisfactory to an antiquary." "There is nothing in them," said the old man, "of general interest. Some old papers they are, which came into my possession by inheritance, and some of them relating to the affairs of a friend of my youth; a long past time, and a long past friend," added he, sighing.
The name, Colcord, was somewhat defaced; it was impossible, in the general disintegration of the stone, to tell whether wantonly, or with a purpose of altering and correcting some error in the spelling, or, as occurred to Hammond, to change the name entirely. "This is very unsatisfactory," said Hammond, "but very curious, too.
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